God Loves You, But Not Enough To Save You

You dumb kids don’t even know you’re dead yet.

“I missed only Lila, Lila who didn’t answer my letters. I was afraid of what was happening to her, good or bad, in my absence. It was an old fear, a fear that has never left me: the fear that, in losing pieces of her life, mine lost intensity and importance. And the fact that she didn’t answer emphasized that preoccupation. However hard I tried in my letters to communicate the privilege of the days in Ischia, my river of words and her silence seemed to demonstrate that my life was splendid but uneventful, which left me time to write to her every day, while hers was dark but full.”

— Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

BTS of Glen Powell doing Hit Man promo via Tim Dueñas' insta stories [x]

The end of this show will be the end of me

The Story of The Lost Child, Elena Ferrante

Old Helen idea

Blue glass beads from the Late Bronze Age, found in 1885 when a Danish farmer ploughed up a cremation urn at Kongehøj. Made in Mesopotamia approximately 3,100 years ago, they offer evidence of long-distance trade connections in the prehistoric world.

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L'amica Geniale | 4.04

them not including Lilas studying of Naples and her whole arc with that city feels like a betrayal to her

“there is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.” ― Miyamoto Musashi

Kami Art by Gordiart

Me when I want to work in academia but absolutely hate the superiority complex that so many academics have 🫠